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# Azure SQL Database Architect

- **Company:** AEZION INC
- **Location:** Frisco, TX, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Databases, Data Profiling, Data Warehousing, Database Schema, SQL Azure, Online Transaction Processing, Query Optimization, SQL Stored Procedures, Transact-SQL, Azure Data Factory, Data Lakes, Performance Monitor, Code Restructuring, Azure Synapse Analytics
- **Published:** May 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=cc1086b287098abb

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Technical writing?, * Deep expertise in Azure SQL Database and T-SQL development

 * Strong command of query optimization - execution plans, statistics, index strategies, and query hints
 * Proficiency with Azure monitoring and performance tools: Query Store, DMVs, Azure Monitor, and Extended Events
 * Demonstrated experience redesigning database schemas for performance at scale
 * Ability to establish and run structured testing and benchmarking workflows independently
 * Strong written and verbal communication for technical documentation and stakeholder reporting
 * Proven track record of delivering measurable performance improvements in production Azure SQL environments

NICE TO HAVE

 * Data warehouse modeling, data lake architecture, or data profiling experience
 * Azure Synapse Analytics or Azure Data Factory exposure
 * Columnstore indexes, partitioning strategies, or in-memory OLTP
 * CI/CD pipelines for database deployments
 * dbt or similar data modeling tools

## Description

* Audit and document existing stored procedures, indexes, schemas, and database object designs
 * Refactor T-SQL stored procedures for correctness, maintainability, and performance
 * Redesign database objects - tables, views, indexes, constraints - to reduce I/O andimprove throughput
 * Design and execute regression and performance test suites to validate all changes
 * Produce before-and-after benchmarks: execution time, CPU usage, memory consumption, and query plan comparisons
 * Validate functional parity between original and refactored implementations, * All targeted stored procedures refactored with measurably improved execution time and resource utilization
 * Database objects redesigned with documented rationale and confirmed functional parity with the original implementation
 * Full benchmark report comparing before-and-after: query duration, CPU, memory, I/O, and query plan quality
 * Zero regressions - all existing functionality validated through structured, repeatable testing
 * Knowledge transfer documentation enabling the internal team to maintain and extend all changes going forward


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